This is an item that holds double interest.

1. It is a cool display of the Shuttle Launch profile with three items in view on the page.  The Shuttle STS-116 launch video and three telemetry data displays: Speed, Altitude, Downrange distance.

2. It is an implementation of cool HTML 5.0 specification page markup.  The video is embedded in the page as a <video> tag (not the <object> tag nor the <embed> tag) and the graphs are all implemented by the <canvas> tag (again no flash).

This is all really cool stuff.

Fascinating and avant guard speach given by Jesse Schell at the Dice Summit, a TED for the gaming industry. 

He talks about technology divergence, gameplay on Facebook, points systems in the real world now, connectivity of everyday objects and finishes by drawing it all together into a game system for reality that we all will experience in the not too distant future.

This is a fascinating video of Circa 1964 Livermore Data Systems "Model A" Acoustic Coupler Modem.  What is most fascinating is that our intrepid tinkerer, K.C., had the modem but then he had to scrounge for the other pieces necessary to enable his experiment.

1. The Serial Adapter.
2. The circa 1980 phone.

So above and beyond the modem itself, all the other pieces are leaving the world as well.  His observation about how the USB port wouldn’t send the correct voltage to change the tone of the modem appropriately is telling.  Does your computer have a serial port on it?

I especially love the technical equipment necessary for completing the job.

exhibit a

Check it all out at phreakmonkey.com

This is a telling and scary article around the cracking of Twitter by “Hacker Croll”.

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/19/the-anatomy-of-the-twitter-attack/

Now going back to Hacker Croll and his list of Twitter employees and other information. Twitter just happens to be one of a number of a new breed of companies where almost the entire business exists online. Each of these employees, as part of their work, share data with other employees - be it through a feature of a particular application or simply through email. As these users become interwoven, it adds a whole new attack vector whereby the weak point in the chain is no longer just the weakest application - it is the weakest application used by the weakest user.

[Emphasis mine]

If you intend to interweave your business with online (cloud) apps and you don’t intend to impose strict security guidelines on your employees then your company is open to EXACTLY this sort of attack.

Keep critical business docs locked down.

Put a wall up between you and the cloud.

At first you may think Clay Shirky is stretching the analogy between the industrial revolution and the interactive computer experience of the 21st century, commonly called Web 2.0.  But as he continues and fleshes out his argument in the second half of the video, and especially the example of the 4 year old, I flipped my interpretation and thought the industrial revolution example may still be the wrong analogy, but because it is not STRONG enough.

if the video doesn't show, right click and click on play in the context menu.

A couple of key quotes:

On comparing WOW and Gilligan's Island:
"However lousy it is to sit in your basement and pretend to be an elf, I can tell you from personal experience it's worse to sit in your basement and try to figure out if Ginger or Mary Ann is cuter."

Television is the "heat-sink" of cognitive surplus:
"And this is the other thing about the size of the cognitive surplus we're talking about. It's so large that even a small change could have huge ramifications. Let's say that everything stays 99 percent the same, that people watch 99 percent as much television as they used to, but 1 percent of that is carved out for producing and for sharing. The Internet-connected population watches roughly a trillion hours of TV a year. That's about five times the size of the annual U.S. consumption. One per cent of that  is 100 Wikipedia projects per year worth of participation."

Another quote:
"I was arguing that this isn't the sort of thing society grows out of. It's the sort of thing that society grows into."

You can read the whole text at his website: Gin, Television, and Social Surplus

ht: Clay Shirky on the cognitive surplus

From RFC 2606, and I quote:

There is a need for top level domain (TLD) names that can be used for creating names which, without fear of conflicts with current or future actual TLD names in the global DNS, can be used for private testing of existing DNS related code, examples in documentation, DNS related experimentation, invalid DNS names, or other similar uses.

There are four such domain names set aside that are un-claimable by anyone.  One of them is obvious: .test.com [.org, .net, etc]

But there are three more:

heh.

This clip is only funny because it is an exaggeration on the truth.

Excita bytes!  Xtreeeeem Bytes!

An exabyte is one-quintillion byte unit of information.  That is equivalent to 50,000 times the size of the Library of Congress.

The amount of data that is flying around the Internet right now is measured in that scale.  This opinion piece over at the Wall Street Journal lays out a bunch of fascinating statistics, this one caught my eye.

Cisco's newest video-conferencing system requires 15 megabits per second in each direction. A one-hour conference call could thus produce 13.5 gigabytes, which is more than a high-definition movie. Just 75 of these Cisco conference calls would equal the entire Internet traffic of the year 1990.

...75 video conference calls == the entire Internet traffic of 1990.  Admittedly there weren't a whole lotta people on the Internet for that time, but still..75 calls.  My previous company did that many video conference calls by themselves in a month, maybe in as short a time frame as a week...and that was a company of about 200. 

It's not stopping here folks, you realize that don't you?  There are 1 Billion people connected...there are 5 Billion people not connected....even a simple arithmetic operation is staggering let alone an exponential one.

We have not idea what we will be using computers for and how integrated they will be in our lives in 10 years...heck 5 years may be too long.

Are you ready for the ride?

Google on Wednesday said it has seen 50 times more search requests coming from Apple iPhones than any other mobile handset -- a revelation so astonishing that the company originally suspected it had made an error culling its own data.

Holy Toledo! - Google iPhone usage shocks search giant!

...has seen 50 times more search requests...!

So let me see if I understand this.  Build a beautiful device that makes it trivially easy to access the internet and search for what you want and people use it...makes sense to me.

Apple removed the user interface barrier from between the user and what the user wants to do.  Because I can access the internet from my phone, but it is a bit painful.  I mean it ain't bad, but it ain't good.

And just for the record I am very happy with my phone.

This is an interesting picture that shows the undersea cables that carry the worldwide Internet traffic, I'm sure you've seen something similar in the past.

This one also shows which cables were damaged and lays out who was impacted by the blackout.

Egypt.

Indeed.

We are in the 21st century all right.  The sta tement in that article that truly sticks out to me is this one:

"People should know how to use the Internet because people who download music and films are going to affect businesses who have more important things to do."

Businesses in Egypt are so tied into the Internet now, just like the rest of the world, that when there is bandwidth issues the Egyptian government steps in and requests people refrain from needless downloads to protect commerce.

The world is truly connected now. 

I liked this comment as well.

Egyptian blogger The Arabist said he would "resume posting after the problem is resolved" and predicted, with a hint of sarcasm, "complete social breakdown in vast swathes of (upmarket Cairo districts) Heliopolis and Mohandiseen as thousands are unable to update their Facebook status."

heh.

...and their famous waggle dance.

Scientists abuzz over more efficient Web servers

Tovey said his collaboration with Seeley demonstrated that the communication [bee waggle] provides a “beautiful” feedback loop to prevent one flower patch from being abandoned while another is depleted. For a superior patch, more bees will shake it on the dance floor and recruit workers to join them. As the nectar level drops from all the hubbub, the bees take longer to fill up, delaying their repeat performances back at the hive. The drop-off in dance routines gives scouts returning from alternative sources a better chance to create their own dance fever and transfer worker allegiances. With the shifting allocations, the system continually equalizes itself and offers a steady stream of nectar.

The emulated the load balancing of the "bee waggle" to divert traffic where it is most needed.

very interesting read.

This is cool and actually one of the clearest explanations of what makes up the header information of the packets that are flying around the intertubes.  Gallery includes: IPv4, IPv6, TCP, UDP and ICMP.

So I found this little trick over here --> http://www3.webng.com/redtophank/cit.html

But here it is for you:

Crazy Cool Internet Trick!
by Justin Benton

Try this crazy cool internet trick in your browser!

Go to Google images. Search whatever you want. Then copy/paste this code in your internet address bar:

javascript:R=0; x1=.1; y1=.05; x2=.25; y2=.24; x3=1.6; y3=.24; x4=300; y4=200; x5=300; y5=200; DI= document.images; DIL=DI.length; function A(){for(i=0; i<DIL; i++){DIS=DI[ i ].style; DIS.position='absolute'; DIS.left=Math.sin(R*x1+i*x2+x3)*x4+x5; DIS.top=Math.cos(R*y1+i*y2+y3)*y4+y5}R++}setInterval('A()',5 ); void(0)

Hit enter. Crazy, huh?

Hit refresh over and over to make it go faster. It also works on the main Google images page, as well as many other web sites if you just look around!

To see the YouTube video of this being done, simply Click here. Enjoy!

it's safe...I've checked it out.

What it does is

1. sets up an algorithm for moving pictures using cosign and sign for circular'ish positioning. 

2. Then it goes and finds all the images on the page. 

3. Then it changes their positioning to be absolute instead of just in the flow of the page. 

4. Then it makes them fly around the page.

neato.  pointless but fun.

This is brilliant. 

Eye-Fi.

Here's how it works.

1. You get the Eye-Fi card. 
2. You plug the Eye-Fi SD card into your machine. 
3. Onboard software initializes the SD card. 
4. You put that card in your camera and you're done.

When you use it.

1. Take pictures.
2. The Eye-Fi card uploads the picture automatically to your computer.
1. You don't  have to connect any wires
2. you don't have to tell it
3. no buttons
4. it just does it
3. You can also tell it to automatically upload those photos to an online photo account of your choosing.
4. Sweet.

The only hitch is you need a wireless network.  I have Cat-5 all through my house so I would need to turn on my wireless router, but most people are wireless now I expect.

This is a brilliant implementation because it does not require you as a user to buy a new camera to get this automatic functionality.  All you need is to replace you SD card and you are good to go.

Great product design.

There is a HUGE fire going on down in Southern California.  Once again the best place to keep track of the events as they occur is the internet and more precisely a private citizen with a blog.

Check out these pictures: http://and-still-i-persist.com/?cat=50

Also the remarkable Google Maps created by other users listed on the page.

Another Army-of-Davids moment.

The Internet Oracle

Lookit how old this is... a .cgi extension. It's like uncovering a rock and finding a goldmine.

A sample:

The Internet Oracle has pondered your question deeply. Your question was:

> What is the biggest misconseption about anime?

And in response, thus spake the Oracle:

} That it's good.
}
} You owe the Oracle the collected works of Tintin and his many
} adventures on DVD.

Comedic gold.

How did I miss this all those years? Here's the wikipedia article: [linky]

and just so you know, you shouldn't really ask the question: "How much wood can a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood."  It's verbotten.

This looks very interesting.  A place for you to control your own medical records.

http://healthvault.com/

When it's your job to protect your family's health, you need every advantage. Imagine if you had a way to collect, store, and share the health information critical to your family's well-being.

HealthVault is the new and FREE way to do just that.

This is an interesting move by Microsoft, I think it is an astute marketing decision.  The concern over controlling your health care and the growing technical competency of the general users...the timing seem fairly on the mark.

So I love the Stumble Upon toolbar. I like it as a user, it can be a real time suck. I like it as a blog owner because it can drive traffic like nothing else I've ever encountered. It is simple, easy to comprehend and just plain fun.

I was curious as to what other competitors might be out there. And I found a few.

Stumble Upon toolbar - http://www.stumbleupon.com/

The market leader. They have a well designed toolbar, website and backend system. The sites can be rated with a simple thumbs up or thumbs down button. Lots of additional features but they are all superfluous. The only thing that matters is that you can submit a site easily, rate a site easily and view a random site at the click of a button. Simplicity drives the success of this toolbar.

Streakr - discorveryBar - http://www.streakr.com/

A direct competitor to the stumble upon toolbar. The one problem I have with it in comparison to StumbleUpon is the handling of categories. SU allows you to choose a subset of categories from which to return a site. Streakr lets you choose All categories or One category. Neither one of those choices is exactly what I want. A bit nitpicky of me I think.

The Random Site toolbar - http://therandomsite.ourtoolbar.com/

Bills itself in the same space but it is not quite as good. It pulls you back to TheRandomSite.com with a featured content link. It is also slower than stumble upon. This is a sub-optimal solution and we should not pursue this technique.

Google random site button - http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2007-04-18-n70.html

This random button is a secondary install for the google toolbar. It returns a random site based on your previous search history. The returned sites don’t seem to be as interesting as an anecdotal review.

In the category of some people have too much time on their hands, comes this: http://www.elbruz.org/islands/Islands%20and%20Lakes.htm

If you ever wanted to know what is the biggest island that is on a lake that is on an island that is on a lake...well this guy figured it out for ya.

hat tip: instapundit

PEOPLE ARE SOYLENT GREEN!

At least I think that's what he was saying. A very interesting article today by Chris Anderson where he equates spare cycles to online content.  What's the next content channel to be tapped?

People wonder how Wikipedia magically arose from nothing, and how 50 million bloggers suddenly appeared, almost all of them writing for free. Who knew there was so much untapped energy all around us, just waiting for a catalyst to become productive? But of course there was. People are bored, and they'd rather not be.

Sometimes he really has his finger on the pulse of what's going on...

I'll be leaving tomorrow morning for ad:tech San Francisco.  I'll give some updates over the next couple of days and a review on Friday.

For now here's the link: http://www.ad-tech.com/sf/

And some basic info:

ad:tech San Francisco will examine the "content explosion" occurring between channels, devices, brands and consumers, and many of the new strategies and practices this environment is demanding - from social networking to digital television.

There are some interesting seminars: http://www.ad-tech.com/conference-sf.asp

And the blog: http://www.adtechblog.com/

I figure I should I stop my man-love fest for Mark Cuban on my blog for a moment to take a slightly different view of viral marketing from Greg's utopia below.

Viral marketing isn't free and it sure ain't easy.  Yes it can be cheap but creating viral content takes time and money.  A professionally produced outsourced video with a small production shop would cost anywhere from $5k to $50k.  That's a pretty substantial sum of money in marketing plan for anything but a mega-corporation (and having owned my fair share of marketing budgets I can assure you $50k is a chunk o' change).  Let's say it was $50k for blendtec and as a result of the publicity they sold 5,000 units above trend - then the marketing cost per unit would be $10.  That's not exactly spectacular.  Of course, if they sold 50,000 more units $1/unit isn't look so bad.

The challenge with "viral" content is that it is very difficult to predict and given the upfront costs hard to gauge its appropriateness.  Sure if it's a huge hit on youtube and gets 1 million views - that sounds like a great deal for a few thousand dollars.  But what if it was viewed 100 times?  Yikes.  For that $5k, at $0.50 cpm you could have run a banner campaign that hit 10,000,000 users guaranteed.  Food for thought.

Viral content is great, it's just hard to build a business around.  Use it sparingly and treat it as a total flier - ie. treat the effort (resources, dollars, staffing time, etc.) as if you are playing with house money.  And as hollywood folks will be sure to tell - hits are perhaps the most unpredictable thing you can imagine.  No one gets fired for hits, but hollywood is littered with the carcases from flops.

We live in a new world.

Careers that existed for 2000 years are largely gone. For instance: blacksmith. Who needs their plow worked on? Um...mine's fine thanks. This is a completely antiquated job that is now the domain of the tourist trap or niche artist.

Other historical jobs that are gone:

• Lighthouse keeper
• Cooper
• Carraige Wheel maker
• Longshoreman (as break bulk freight handler)

There are jobs that are at risk of obsolescence right now.

Car salesman and the Auto dealership model itself. Toyota is leading the charge with made-to-order cars shipped to the dealership for you. They have the best production methods so they can attempt this method of manufacturing process, but if they are able to pull it off, the other manufacturers will need to do it as well.

Grocery Store Checker: Wal*Mart is in the early phases of rolling out RFID in ALL of its product. (in the future all the way down to the unit level)...this means you could conceivably fill your cart, push it through a kiosk (while not pulling a single item out of the cart), swipe your card and walk out the door. And where Wal*Mart leads, all follow. Bye bye checker.

Other current jobs at risk of obsolescence.

• Journalist (paid by a coporation)
• Television repairman

New jobs

Now we can speak of the obvious new careers available to people: Web developer, Systems engineer, Ad-Banner sales, Flash developer, Ajax zen master, Enterprise Open Source Adoption Tech Evangelist. But what I want to talk about is jobs and careers that have come about BECAUSE of the technology deployed. Ones that but for the layers and layers of technology and the network effect of adoption of these technologies would not exist.

Professional Scotch drinker video blogger: Ze Frank has been able to parlay 5 minute entertaining thoughts on his world into a sponsorship by Dewars Scotch! Woah nelly, talk about my hero! So here we have a guy, who makes little videos, puts them online, people watch them, and he gets sponsored. Granted he is talented and entertaining, but this model of getting noticed and making money is remarkable and historically unprecidented.

ANYONE that has talent has the ability to get noticed. You put a video or two up on Youtube (or wherever) and, if it is entertaining, you could get noticed. Get enough interest and get yourself some ad-dollars. Sweet! Virtually NO middleman.

Professional dancer: Where in the Hell is Matt?. Not like any professional dancer that you've heard about. Matt makes his money by traveling around the globe and doing a goofy little dance...ummm...what?

How does one get this gig? Well you can go here and read about it. But essentially (much like Ze Frank), because Matt has talent (albiet a goofy dance type of talent) and he was able to put his talent up on the web for all to see, Stride gum found him and decided on their own to sponsor him.

Again, never woulda happened before about 2 or 3 years ago...

Professional blogger: problogger.net. Darren Rowse has an interesting gig. He is somewhat of a hero/mentor out on the web. He makes a nice salary by just blogging, but he has taken it to a meta level. He now has a job where he essentially gets paid to blog about making money blogging. That's a bit recursive. I wonder if I could make money about making money about how to make money blogging. The mind spins with the possibilities.

These are only a few cursory examples. I know of someone at my work who is supplementing his income to the tune of $2000/month, so it not only applies to Full time work but also part time.  I plan on throwing my hat in the ring and seeing how much additional income I can make off of you poor saps from advertising on this site.

This is a change in the way our economy is structured. It will have long term effects and there is no going back.

Do you have an example?

Do you make your money in a new way?

Interesting reading:

• Ten Majors that Didn't Exist 10 Years Ago
• career blog emerging careers
• Jobs that will never disappear
• Blacksmiths

Well not just ponies.  Good video from the Stanford Business School, about his perspective on Microsoft - Google - and the future and all that.

http://zdnet.com.com/1606-2_2-6167775.html?tag=nl.e622

Go watch it.

Back in the day, when life was hard, we had to mark up pages using notepad and we absolutely positively had to make them viewable within an 800 X 600 resolution. But you try and tell the kids that these days and they just won't believe a word you say.

Not a word...

So back in 2000 the broad screen resolution breakdown for web users looked something like this:

courtesy: www.thecounter.com

Therefore you as a web developer were incentivised to develop to the 800 X 600 resolution (I actually remember the discussion about moving up to 800 X 600 from 640 X 480).

Now-a-days it's much different:

courtesy: www.thecounter.com

It's just interesting now and again to revisit accelerating change.  Bottom line, if you are still basing your design on 800 X 600 you are not using the available screen real estate fully.

Update: and taking a look at my google analytics it is even more striking.

Jeff Han blew people's minds last year at the TED conference with this presentation on multi-touch computing. He showed us what could be accomplished when interfaces just get out of the way and we get to manipulate our data with our own hands, rather than through crufty intermediary devices.

So, while the Han video is insanely cool, I was trying to come up with an idea of how this technology could help me in my day to day work environment. I don't use maps. I don't need an interactive lava lamp or to manage mountains of photos all day. I sit in a cubicle in front of three separate computer monitors (2 for my laptop - the onboard and a separate one, and one for my desktop development box). My work revolves greatly around email, Microsoft office products (blech), and some organizational webapps that I use to remember and manage what's important. In general, I think I have pretty good systems for what goes where, especially on my computer and network drives.

As I looked at the mess that was my desk, however, an idea finally began to emerge. I could use the new interface to completely replace my entire desk! Now that a sizeable screen has the ability to access any amount of virtual space and I have the ability to navigate that space with simple gestures there is no need to keep mountains of paper (half of them with huge "confidential" reminders printed all over them) stacked out in plain view or in little file folders.

It also opens up the possibility that I can use smaller interfaces to access my virtual workspace remotely. As long as an input device is large enough to gesture and the scaling technologies allow us to navigate at any scale, there's no reason I can't use an iPhone or an ereader during a meeting to access files on the network, distribute them to others in the room, and generally replace all the paper cruft which would normally be going on. No more printing PowerPoint decks, OK?

What I'm really talking about is the merging of multi-touch computing with something like the 3D BumpTop Desktop below:

Maybe the combinations of these new interfaces spell the death of my messy real-world desktop and the birth of my messy virtual desktop? Dare to dream.

1. New blog discovered:

901am.com
901am is a website covering new media news. and blogging.

Pretty cool blog dealing with the whole media thing. Pronto-like updating too.

2. Cool Gadget: Lego Chaingun

I know I did a lego thing last time too, but this is too bitchin' to pass up:

3. Big News: as in BIG.

Google's master Plan:

3. Cool Tool: Emotional Marketing Value Headline Analyzer

eh...what?

Come on don't you know of the EMaVaHA?! If you absolutely need to find out how sucky your headline is and how crappy a copy writer you really are go here and find out.

I will be attending this [linky] on Wednesday.  Look for a complete round-up to follow. 

I am going into the conference with a healthy dose of skeptisism.  I believe that the success or failure of an online business (or any business) has much more to do with a solid business plan and a revenue stream behind it.  

Web 2.0 is merely chrome on top of your machine.  It can add value, but beware of making it an engine for success.

Lede:

Designed for those building next-generation products and services online, this intensive, day-long course provides a thorough grounding in the revolutionary world of Web 2.0, a set of design patterns and business models that are reshaping the face of the Web today. Web 2.0 describes the most successful rules for doing business online by uncovering the power of using the intrinsic strengths of the World Wide Web that have only recently been fully understood.

1. New blog discovered:

I am going to start this with one blog. At the rate that blogs are created in the world and the associated lower percentage of good blogs made I assume that I will have to add more then one. But for now you get one.

thinkJOSE.com - The flavor of new ideas
Well the first thing that jumps out at you is the design kicks ass! This is a reason why, even though I use an RSS Reader a lot, I still prefer to read some sites in the browser, some designs (like Jose's) are just great. And his logo is pretty cool too, although looking at his pic from his bio I would recommend he put a smile on his face...

But what keeps me coming back (like any good blog) is the content. His posts are often quite incitefull: Spicy Spiral Video.

Keep up the good work Jose.

2. Cool gadget

Ok, not exactly a gadget, but you have to admit this is just cool...A lego Toilet Paper Extractor

3. Big news

I have to come back to the story I reported yesterday, which was Microsoft losing in the patent infringement suit with Alcatel-Lucent.

There is some interesting speculation already brewing on my fourth point in the afformentioned post regarding whether ogg vorbis will get some luvin' out of this verdict.

4. Cool tool

Web Accessibility Toolbar
So I used to use the web dev toolbar for IE but it changed for IE7 and now it's different and bigger and more of a console. It's still neat, but the feature I want to use most often is "view partial source" and I want it easily accessible, and it isn't with the other tool bar.

Well this one has it right where I want it. Good little toolbar.

Let’s consider the human creature. It is a curious beast that responds to pretty lights and flashing pictures fairly readily.

Case in point, TV. Television is one of the most powerful inventions ever created, for any of you out there that have children you know the power of the TV. Turn on the switch and they quiet down and all their attention is sucked into the CRT…er sorry, LCD screen.

The burst of video onto the internet is merely the latest in a long line of shiny digital baubles to bedazzle humans.

But what simpletons we.

The clips circulating are self perpetuating. The pointless ones never rise above inconsequence; some of the good ones also languish in obscurity. But the best ones, the prime ones, rise and rise.

The term tossed around by the technorati is viral. This is a good word because it explains our helplessness in the wave of mob popularity. What gets seen is what gets promoted higher, which is what gets seen which is what gets promoted.

The circle continues.

The content creator has it in his power to deliver the video to many sites, in fact not only does the content creator do this but anyone can…and anyone and everyone does...

Soon the same video becomes available on more and more websites. But we, the human, don’t notice, or more likely don’t care.

The question arises when are we saturated? When are there too many videos on too many sites for differentiation to happen? What draws the eyeballs?

Because as you can see…

There is no lack of places that the same popular video appears…

And still we continue to watch…

Stupid, stupid humans…

We are not designing machines that will take over the world via their evil genius; we are designing machines that will blunt our intelligence until they can knock our staring head off our body like flicking an olive.

…pretty…butterflies…looook…bubbles…

Who's gonna win this death match, I mean sure on one side you have FOX network and the BAzillion dollars of Ruppert Murdoch,  But on the other side you have a ninja.  And as we all know a ninja lives for flippin out and choppin people's heads off.

Seriously, when a site is deleting links to competitors sites that's just not sportsmanlike against queensbury rules and all that, <afectation accent="english">what</affectation>.

http://www.askaninja.com/node/2836

Right now if you link to anything at a site like "http://revver . com" (remove the spaces) Myspace will delete the link. Try it. That sucks right?

Revver is not the only site. There are dozens of smaller video and photo sharing sites that they are doing this to.

That's bullshit man.

Fight the power!

Compete.com has a fascinating chart explaining about the total amount of time we all spend at certain websites. There are a few very interesting facts in the dataset.  For one thing pogo.com, neopets.com and adultfriendfinder.com all slid into the top 20.  I don't know who I would have expected to slide in there, but I'm not sure I would have anticipated them.

Their chart didn't show everything I wanted, I wanted to delve a bit deeper.  So I went out to alexa and got the reach numbers for each of the sites to sift the time data.

Here are the sites re-ordered by time-spent / reach.

Look-it Pogo.com. Wow! Very interesting that. They are a gaming site so that indicates the long length of time their users stay.  Playing game after game.

The other striking point is the dismal showing of live.com.  Last place in the re-ordering.